Retainer for sliced bread



y 1930. o. F. ROHWEDDER RETAINER FOR SLICED BREAD Filed Jar l. 25, 1927 I N VEN TOR.

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Patented May 29, 1930 UNITED STATES ENT-- OFFICE om'ro r. nonwnnnnn, or navl mronr, Iowa, A'SSIGNOR 'I'O Mac-Ron SALES & MFG. COMPANY, OF DAVENPORT, IOWA, LA CORPORATION OF DELAWARE flaa'raman Eon sLIcnn BREAD Application tiled 'ranuar as, 1927. Serial in. 163,441.

My invention relates to a means for holding the slices of a sliced loaf of bread together substantially in their original presliced position.

The objects of my invention are 2 To provide means for holding the slices of a cut loaf of bread together as a whole;

2. To hold the slices at each end of the I loaf and permit slices to be taken from. the

one-half of the length of the loaf middle ofthe loaf and allow the remaining portions of the loaf to be placed in juxtaposition' 3. To provide means to retain the end crusts of a loaf of bread in their original position, thusavoiding the exposure of a cut surface to, the air;

4. To provide as an article of merchandise, a sliced loaf of bread with the slices, secured in their original position by means which will allow ready access to any part of' the loaf.

I attain these objects by the means illus- 'trated in the accompanying. drawings, in

which,-

Figure 1 is a perspective view of a sliced loaf of bread and showing the fasteners or Figure 2 is a plan is sliced preferably by a slicing machine, which slices the whole loaf at once, and is held in its original position by guides or other suitable means'during the slicing operation and after the slicing is completed. Whileso hel staples of wire or other suitable material having a length substantially exceeding of bread are inserted in each end of the loaf and pressed inwardly until the heads portions of the staples overlap. at the middle of the loaf. 7

It is obvious that with this construction the loaf can easily be separated at or near the middle and any desired number of slices taken out without removing the staples from the end of the bread and the remaining slices of the bread can then be reassembled with the cut faces in j uxtaposition and the staples overlapping as much as may be necessary, the

with centrall and securing the of the staples come in contact with the end crusts and the inner ends thereof approximately pointed ends of the staples extending out through the end crusts if necessary or when it is desired to avoid having-the pointed ends of the staples projecting through the ends 1n close contact with the loaf and avoid projecting points.

danger of injury from the The staples arepreferably made with longitudinal undulations which maybe either horizontal as shown in Figure 2 or vertical as shown in Figure 1. Iclaim: i v

'1. A sliced loaf of bread in combination overlapping'retainers secured therein longitudinally from opposite ends slicesof the loaf in their original positionthereof secured in their original position by staples inserted in the loaf from opposite ends thereof with their inner ends substantially overlappingnear the middle of the loaf.

4, A sliced loaf of bread having the slies thereof secured in their ori inal position by staples inserted in the loaf rom the opposite upon the longihaying their 1nsubstantially overlapping tudinal axis of the loaf and ner end portions within the loaf.

a In testimony whereof he aflixes his signature, i

OTTO F. ROHWEDDER.

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